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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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W. W. 8ANDKKH, IMinlUlier.
NEMAHA, - " - NISD11ASICA.
REMEMBERING THE DEAD.
On thft other nldo of tlio ntrcnm
Tlmt HtcntH by thin earthly nhore,
I know Hint our loved onoH lovo ub still,
JuBt nu they loved of yoro.
They curry ub In their thought,
Thoy Hpeak of u when they meet,
Anil over nnd ever tho troth of old
Hides with them warm und uwcot.
O patient nnd ronntnut dead,
"Whom ho piiHlly wo put hy,
Wlio fade away frorh our ItimoHt thoughts
Ah tho HtitrH fndo out of tho nicy!
Wo put them no far away,
Wo hldo them ho deep with CJodj
Wo think of thorn (mulched to 'the far
thest Htnr
Ahhooii uh thoy'ro under tho nod.
Ah incl It In pitiful ho,
Uear lovers, ho leal and near,
Ayo, preHflliiK you" faces HKnliiHt tho patos
Of our heartH and wo will not hear!
O, friends, when our sainted dead
fans over that unHccn lino,
They Hy not far, to u foreign land,
They dwell In your land and mine.
A land that no flro can hum,
No element nweep away,
Tho dear lone homo of Immortal love,
Ood'H country nnd ours for nyol
Bo.drnw them elosor there,
Ah of old time, hand In hand.
Ood meant wo Bhotild walk throUKh llfo
and death,
Tn Iovo'h Immortal land.
JamcH lluckham, In ConKrcKatlonnllst.
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Friends Ever.
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THEY Lad been friends from boy
hood, and possessed tliu snmo
tastes and inclinations concerning
both play" nnd Btudy. When tho col
lego days dawned upon tliu horizon
ho minie old spirit, of friendliness
manifested Itself; they ehoso tho
annio profession, medicine, and were
greater friends thtin over in the close
rivalry of ambition.
In collego they were known uh "Tho
TwIiih," though they were wholly dis
similar uh to appearance, Htaturo or
complexion. Henry Mortiu was short,
Btontly built, with blue eye, erlsp
ly curling, light hair, nnd n mouth
ub HWcct und tender uh u woman's.
John Findlay wns tall and slender,
with dark hair and eyoH tho latter
deep Hot and Hcarehing and u mouth
about wIioho eoriiei'H the lines of a
UxcducHH of purpoHe oven thus early
were drawn.
Tho college dnys are over, and we
find them both attached to St. Mark's
hospital, working side by side; ready
for tho ambulance cnll, to rattle away
over tho pavements of the city to
udminiHter aid to tho unfortunate,
bruised and broken; or wo 11 ml thorn
together by tho slda of tho dying,
quick to smooth tho pillow or rcceivo
tho iluttciing pressure of tho en
feebled lingers of tho "passer on."
"This fair Canadian nurso who re
cently came to St. Mark's seems n
Rolf-possessed sort of a person," said
Henry Morse, locking arms with his
friend as the pair passed down tho
gravel walk leading to tho hospital
Bteps. Hut John Findlny was not in
u communicative mood, and ho did
not immediately respond. Ho had n
habit of pushing one end of his thin,
inky mustache into tho corner of his
mouth with his linger. Ho is doing
it now; and it always gave tho other
a chill to see him do it, for Henry
disliked habits of tho sort.
All hospital grounds, ilowors, walks
nnd embellishment?) in tho way of
landscape gardening look stliT. They
moan to bo alkylating to tho ill ones,
charming to tho eye; but they never
are, for they bear too closely the
marks of precision, soldierly cure;
and instead of appearing natural,
they seem surrounded with too much
red tape. Every ilower, tree or shrub
growing upon hospital grounds has
tho sign of tho red tape drawn about
them. Even tho fountain that tinkles
In tho mellow, hushed air of tho place
pnys tho- rhythm of rotation upon
tho eardrums of tho afflicted behind
those stone walls. ,T have been told
by many who have Leon "so placed
that tho sound of thunder, tho rum
bling of a train of cars or tho roar
of cannons was more soothing than
tho tinkling of tho placidly plashing
fountain.
After tho pair reached tho thor
oughfuro leuding to their quarters,
situated but. it short, distance away,
Flndluy finally found his tongue, and
nsked :
"Whoso name did you mintjon?"
"Well, you must bo pretty deeply in
'it, old man. I did not mention any
one's name," said Morse, withdrawing
his arm.
"Hut you were speaking of some
ono as wo passed through the
grounds." v
"Tlen it has just struck; you? I was
imply Buying that tho fair Canadian
nurso seemed to bo a self-possessed
sortof person. That's nlj."
"By, tho way, eho is not fuir; ami
how Is sho different from the rcBt,
Henry V"
"I mean iby fair she is oh, well,
charming, pleading and pretty. She
seems to know how to do things with
out asking. Slfe In ready without urg
ing. She has good nerve, too. Why,
she did up tliu smnshed leg of that
poor fellow who was brought in day
before yesterday, before I came, in a
manner to equal anything of the sort
I over saw."
"Jlumphl that's what sho Is at St.
Mark's forto learn how to do
things, As for beauty and all that
sort of thing, I "
"Well, what, John?" asked tho
other, as the tali, slender fellow lift
ed his hand to apply the latch key.
The other hand was busy with the
mustache, .pushing one end of it out
of sight. Henry Morsa gave a little
shiver of dislike, and Findlny said, as
ho pushed open tho door:
"She may not bo charming at all
without her hospital garb. Come, let
us go In; drop nurses, nnd such trash."
He led tho way up' tho wldo stairs,
and tho two were soon settled for tho
night In their suite of rooms.
When they appeared at tho hospital
tho next morning they were asked to
stop into tho olllco where "Old Ice,"
tho pot name bestowed by tho young
fellows upon Koger Thorn, M. D., the
best surgeon in tho city, wifo await
ing them. Ah, many u poor fellow's
death warrant had been drawn up in
tlmt square, compact little niche of
St. Marie's! And many n bold and in
tricate case had also been solved
therein by tho thick-limbed and
sandy-headed man who is sitting In
tliu big, leather-cushioned chair drum
ming upon 'the window sill with those
long, blunted lingers. "Old Ice" is
cool at. all times or at least his
fingers are and those same lingers
have guided tho keen knife within a
tiHHiie's breadth of many a jugular
vein, or have searched for many a hid
den ill among bone and muscle..
"Good morning, gentlemen; sit
down; L want to tell you something,"
uttered tho celebrated surgeon, in his
peculiar, jerky words. After tho two
were seated, ho turned around square
ly and asked:
"Hither of you want to die? Ha,
ha! Good joke, that stop! Don't
say a word until T get through. I'm
not much of a talker; I like to finish
what I've got to say before the other
chap begins, though. Some men are
born soldiers, and do not know what
fear means. Others acquire bravery
after much practice. Was a timid
young thing myself once. Got all
over that with a few exceptions here
and there. Tho rase I'll mention is
ono of tho exceptions. Candidly, T
am timid about it. Wish people
would have some other sort of ills if
they must bo sick. This crtse I do not
like. It makes mo timid, oh I said.
I'm as cowardly as u child before a
bulldog now."
If "Old Ice" felt as ho said ho did,
lie failed to show any signs of it In
the slightest. Ho looked as ready to
perform a great piece of work as ho
over did. John Findlny, who could
contain himself no longer, ventured
to suy:
"Will you plcaso enlighten us con
cerning tho case, (doctor?"
"in a moment. First, you nro both
suro you do not want to die?"
"You arc joklng.my dear sir," said
Henry Morse.
" joking? You must bo mud, sir!
T never joke. I may play jokes with
nerves, bones, muscles and such; but
what, is commonly called joking I
never Indulge iu tho foolish practice.
To come right down to tho facts of
tho ease, I will simply say that T am
about fo take a great, a very great
risk. 1 am obliged to call upon my
young men to take tho same risk "
"Doctor, we aio at your service,"
broke in Findlny. And Morse, nodded
approvingly.
"Ah! that's the sort of spirit I like
to sec in my young men," said "Old
lee," good naturedly. Then fixing his
deep, hazel eyes upon tho face of
John Findloy, raised his hand' and
punctuated the air wth his long fore
linger as he spoke: "It is an easy mat
ter, -young men, to remove a limb or
sew and plaster n wound; nothing
easier in our line in the world. Hut
when a Burgeon fakes his llfo In hi3
own hands and attempts to heal a
poor mortal of a fatal Infliction, and is
liable, feu chances against tho rest, to
incur himself a fatal infliction, how
about it, 'eh?" Tliu sandy fringe of
hair seemed to be bristling about that
grand old head that had bent low
over many a serious ease in its time.
Henry Morse began to feel as though
he was wholly Ignored, for the sur
geon kept his eltar eyes fixed upon
Find ley's face. Andjhen Henry grow
ncnous as his friend began to push
that inky slip of must ache out of sight
with his fingers.
'"Well, doctor, what is the case?"
asked Findlny, without glancing lit"
his bosom friend, who was bending
eagerly forward, with a rosy flush
spread over his fair face.
"Putrescent abscess of the liver."
John Findlny quit gnawing his mus
tache; he straightened up In his chair
and looked for a brief instance into
those clear, hoel eyes fixed upon him.
Then he rose and said, hesitatingly:
"Dr. Thorn, I am very sorry to suy
that we do not care to assist you in
the case "
"You mean yourself not I," broke
in a sweet toned voice.
"Eh? You why bless my stars!"
broke from tho Burgeon, us ho gazed
at flic fair speaker.
"My friend Is only joking?' Come,
Henry, let us go." Findloy went to
the door and laid his hand upon the
brass knob. He opened the door nnd
stood for a brief instant upon tin
threshold, ns though waiting for his
friend to depart with him. Ho only
sat there, smiling back nt the hazel
eyes of the Bnndy-ncadcd man who was
looking at him in astonishment. Tho
door opened and closed, and tho sur
geon of St. Marie's and the student
were alone.
'T thought he had tho most nerve,"
Bald tho surgeon.
"So did T."
"I hud picked h'm out from among
tho entire lot of young fellows' to
help mo hi this ilTnir. Well, I was"
mistaken."
"So wns I."
"And you will join me in this cape,
young man?" ,
"With the greatest pleasure in all
the world, doctor " A pair of hands
clasped there in the little square room
where many a life or death verdict had
been pronounced. Tho young man
received his instructions ns to the
hour of operation and then he left
the room, went out where the flowers
nodded, and where n pretty girl
dressed in tho uniform of tho St
Mark's nurses stood by the sido of the
tinkling fountain under the olms.
What passed between the pretty
Canadian nurse and tho young medi
cal student Is of small import to us;
but n look of surprise, ' followed by
ono of anxiety, came upon her face
when Henry Morse responded to the
question sho asked. She turned her
face away from his, nnd looked down
at tho gold-fish darting hither and
thither in the shaded pool nt her
feet. Ho asked her n question, but
she did not answ'r; she continued to
look down, drew In slightly her under
lip, and gave a dainty shrug of her
shoulders. When she lifted her face
again, he was at tho gate. Then she
murmured:
"Ho is grand, but L thought the
other wns the strong, brave one of
tho pair."
The day passed, and the subject of
tho operation to be performed upon
tho following morning was never
mentioned between the two friends.
Once, only once, Morso turned his
eyes toward the dark face bonding
oer a book. Tho blnck eyes were
fixed upon the page, and the fingers
of one hand were crowding tho inky
mustache out of Bight. .And when
thev parted to retire, Henry Morse
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held out his ",hnnd before going to
his chamber, saying: s
"Shake, old boy. Hecollcct, wc are
friends, over."
"Friends, ever," echoed Findlny, as
ho took the warm palm between his
chill fingers.
"Good-night, John, my friend."
"Good-night."
The door between the long, wide,
waiting-room and tho operating room
opened,, and "Old Ice," leaning heav
ily upon tliu arm of the fair-faced
young student, emerged from it. The
huzol eyes were not ns bright ns
usual, und thu generally ruddy face
of tho great surgeon was ashen. He
was helped into his office, where he
took n glass of wine, after which he
seemed to recover-some of his old-time
snirits. He. left the hospital after-
wiiTds and inside of ten days wns a
dead man. The cause of tho old sur
geno's death was pronounced to be
blood-poisoning.
Upon the evening of the dny of the
surgeon's funeral, Henry Morso wns
taken to St. Mark's ill, weak, nerve
less, "There seems to bo something
wrong with tho boy," said Findlny,
ufter his friend had been placed upon
one of thu snowy cots, in a cool, quiet
room.
A white blind wns laid upon the
sick man's brow. Findlay turned to
meet the calm gazo of .the Canadian
nurse.
"Yes it is now a struggle between
life and death. I pray God I will win,"
she said, softly.
"You?"
"Yes, 1 shall bo his nurse."
"There are others who can nurse
him."
"There is no one but myself who can
do so much for him," snid the sweet,
low- voice of the fair girl.
"Why you, more than any other
nurse?"
"That, no one but he bus n right to
nsk," replied she, ns sho pointed to
ward the face upon the pillow.
And then commenced the great bat
tlo for the mastery Medical science
said tho bravo young fellow should
die. Close, careful and skilled nurs
ing, backed up by youth and man
hood that hnd never known "any
ill, said ho should not die. Every
change, no matter how slight, was
watched by his friend, John Findlny,
.who seemed to be always by the nick
man's bedside.
The fair nurse never left the bed
sldo until Findlay went out for his
meals or to snatch a few moments of
sleep. i
it is midnight, and the eiisis io -
hand. The face upon the pillow l
livid. Tho blue lips are drawn back,
and tho white teeth gleam in tho
shaded light. By the side of tho bed
sits tho young student, Findlay, hold
ing the feverish hand of his friend.
The tinkling of the fountain" falls upon'
IiIm cars. The rattling of wheels
over tho pavement cornea from tho
distance. The sleeve of the sick man's
robo is pushed bock, nnd the arm
with the turgid reins Is disclosed. Tho
small figure In hospital garb stands
with buck turned to Findlny. A long,
lean linger produces from the vest
pocket something that glitters In the
light. A careful hand guides the ob
ject to the thick part of the forearm,
und then like a phantom, as quick
nnd as noiseless a small figure leans '
over the bed and pushes one slender
white- hand between the instrument's
keen point nnd tho bared arm. A pair
of blnck eyes nrc raised to the now
livid face of Findlay, and u pair of
tightly-drawn lips huskily whisper:
"Do it, coward! You dare not!"
Tho instrument is withdrawn, and
John Findlay leans back and begins to
push Ills inky mustache out of sight.
Again, tho figure of the nurse stand
ing upright, and with arms folded
neorss the breast, and a pair of
searching eyes penetrato to the in
nermost heart of the false friend.
The sick man stirs uneasily, the lips
part, and upon the quiet air of tho
room there falls softly, slowly:
"Friends e-ever."
Tho nurso laid her cool hand upon
tho forehead, and gave a sigh as of sat
isfaction. Tho brow was no longer
hot and feverish. It was cool to
the touch.
"Go, please; I can attend to him
now without your help," she snld.
Findlay rose, gnvo one glance nt
tho sick man's face; and then left tho
room, fussing with his mustncho in
tho old, tiresome manner.
Up in tho Canadian woods, where
Henry Morse went with the fair irirl
ho married, ho found health rapidly.
Once only once ho asked her why
his friend Findlny hud left him so
suddenly. His wife shrugged her
shoulders, nnd snid nothing.
"I had an idea, dear, that he
fancied you."
"I did nqt fancy him."
"John is queer but he and I are
to be friends ever."
Hut the two were destined never to
meet ngain upon this world. Good
Literature.
CAPTURED BY AN OSTRICH.
The Feathered IUpcd Tnnitht i I.cn-
hoii to the Conceited GiiardH-
Mun.
A guardsman in the reserve of offi
cers, who is better known for his
swagger than for his brains, hnd an
unfortunate experience in South
Africa, euys the London Express.
Ho was stationed about 100 miles
from Cape Town nt u remount depot.
One morning n. farmer stopped him
as he was taking a constitutional nnd
warned him against crossing nn in
olosure containig u cock ostrich, which
hud become bad-tempered. The
guardsman said that no ostrich ever
hatched would turn him out of his
way and went on unmoved.
As he had not returned home four
hours afterward his brother officers
were alarmed and sent out search par
ties. What was their surprise to dis
cover him lying on his back unhurt,
with u cock ostrich sitting on his
chest.
The bird had knocked him down
each time he had tried to rise, but
could not hurt him while ho lny on
his back. Yet leave his enemy he de
clined to do nnd threforo snt quietly
upon him until driven off by the res
cue party.
"Where He Wan Weak.
Mr. Jowdcrs looked gloomily at the
letter to which ho hud just painfully
affixed his signature, und then cast u
dubious glance at his wife.
"Do you want to just run this over
before I f.end it to son James?" ho in
quired; und when Mrs. Jowdcrs shook
her bend, he hastily folded the. sheet,
wjiich bore the" marks of hours of
toll, and thrust it into an envelope,
which he senled with trembling expe
dition, nnd then lenned bnck in his
chnir with nn air of relief.
"I was afraid you'd want to rend it,
nnd then most likely 'twould bo nil to
do over again, mother, like the Inst
one," he said. "But I'm glad Jnmcs
wrote he didn't mind a word mis
spelled here an' there. There's some
things I can do, but T never could
seem to get a good purchase on tho
system of spelling, honiewny."
"As r view it," continued Mr. Jow
dcrs, "(here's some words you can
spell by the looks, and some you enn
spell by the sound; them I can most
gen'lly manage. But when you come
to spelling by jedgment und mnln
stren'th, my chances nro about ns slim
ns they mnko 'em." Youth's Com
panion. One-Sided.
She So this is the end of our en
gugemcnl? He It mny bo for you, but it will
tnke mo a yenr yet to pny the billy,
Brooklya Life.
TREATING SANDY SOIL.
How io Make It Available for Gar
denim 1'nrponen nt a Compara
tively Small Expcnae.
Soil of a somcwvliat sandy charac
ter, although excellent for garden
purposes on account of warmth, caas
of manipulation and quickness o re
sponding to fertilizer applications,
has the ono great fuult of allowing
moisture, nnd plant foods with it, to
escape to tho lower stratn by leach
ing much fuster than is often desir
able. This fault Is most nppnrcnt
when the soil Joes not contain much
decaying vegetable matter (carbon),
und hence may be remedied by abun
dant applications of barnyard ma
nure. Thi? xursc is naturally an ex
pensive one, and a good dressing of
clay can often bo made more effect
ive m correcting the deficiencies of
sandy soils and at the same time to
ndd the element of potash, which is
often deflcifcnt in such soils. The
clay can be put on the land during
the fall and winter, at nny.time when
most convenient, and the frost will
act on nnd pulverize it. A mnrket
gnrdener stntcd that he is able to
tell to a yard, by the looks of his
crops, where the clay was put, and
the ground that nns hnd scvcraL
dressings always grows better straw
berries and vegetables than that
which hns hnd no cloy applied. Land
thus treated holds moisture bet.ter,
the clay taking it from the dew and
rain, and retaining it much better,,
thus absorbing more juices of the
manure used than the undressed land.
For mixing with light loams cluy is
usually of grout value, and so -it Is
used In the same wny with manure
or leaf mold for growing melons, etc.,
which like stiff soils, but in either
ense it should be such ns hns become
ameliorated by exposure to the
weather. Some gardeners have tooi
stiff and unworkable kind of clay,
nnd need the lighter material, but
the remedy, in their case lies the
otiier way. Bond .-scrapings, lenf rnlc
ings nnd rubbish heap -ingredients
properly nnd continuously employed
will soon effect nn improvement.
Agricultural Epitomist.
THE NEW PEA PEST.
Dextructlvc Insect Which Han Al
ready Inflicted 111b: IiOmmch oil
VeRetahle Grower.
The new pest, the destructive pea
nphis, has in the last two years in
flicted enormous losses in various re
gions where peus are grownfor can
neries, as Maryland, Delaware, New
Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Michigan und Wisconsin nlso have
suffered from it. Some of the
scientists clnim thnt it is naturally
more an enemy of clover than of
THE DESTRUCTIVE PEA I.OUSlv.
pens. An encouraging feature noted
in Canada is that wherever the aphis
occurred it was attacked by para
sitic enemies, the most vigorous of
these being the smnll orange larvae
of a species of diplosis minute mag
gotswhich suck the juice out of
the body of the nphis.
The "brush nnd cultivator" method
of lighting the pen louse is accepted
as the most generally effective. For
this it is necessnry that the pens be
planted in rows, and when the in
sects are noticed thu vines nrc
brushed bnekwnrd and forward with
a good pine switch in front of n cul
tivator drawn by a single horse. In
this manner the plant lice are cov
ered up ns soon us they full to the
ground, und a large proportion of
them ure destroyed,
Fens sown lute or on poor ground
sustain most damage. The pea aphis
is sketched many times enlarged.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
It is not n bad plan to plant a tree
in every neglected corner ubout tho
farm.
The objection to the plan of mulch
ing continually, year after year, Is
that it tends to bring the roots too
near the surface.
In all transplanting cure must bo
tnken to see that the roots come in
close contact with the soil. A failure
to do this causes loss.
Jn transplanting plants of every
kind, whether largo or small, care
must bo taken to keep the roots
moist or the plants will be injured.
If any of the trees in the orchurd
have grown forked it will be a good
plan to tiu thu forks together in such
a way as to afford mutual support.
In order to get tho full benefit of
heeling in trees in the fall ndvuntngo
must be taken of tho first favorable
opportunity to et them out in the-prlng.-Farmers'
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